"In England we are sort of very awkward."

“You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.”

“When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.”

“You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.”

“I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.”

Source : "What Might Have Been If These Media Rumors Had Come True" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

“It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”

Source : Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

“Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.”

“I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt